Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine treatment strategy
- Determine appropriate therapeutic principles of treatment according to diagnosis of client and within the skills of competence of the practitioner
- Ascertain contra-indications to treatmentand possible complicating factors and modify treatment strategy used according to aromatic medicine principles
- Take into consideration treatment and advice provided by other health care professionals in determining the strategy to be used in treatment
- Select treatment strategy appropriate to client condition and supported on the basis of established aromatic medicine practice
- Take into consideration possible client compliance issues in specific treatment options
- Discuss the treatment strategy with the client
- Discuss proposed treatment strategy with the client
- Allocate sufficient time to discuss the treatment strategy, appropriate to the client's needs
- Negotiate client compliance
- Clarify discrepancies between the practitioner's and the client's perception of the condition
- Communicate any relevant information from medical or diagnostic reports is communicated
- Explain any perceived risks from the client's condition and treatment
- Clarify the responsibilities of practitioner and client within the treatment plan
- Obtain client consent for treatment strategy